{"id":1522,"date":"2007-02-12T08:30:49","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T12:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1522"},"modified":"2013-01-21T12:55:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T17:55:18","slug":"illegal-signs-blog-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/02\/12\/illegal-signs-blog-launches\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal Signs blog launches!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/illegalsigns.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/college_719_8.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/illegalsigns.ca\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/illegalsigns.ca\/wp-content\/themes\/illegalsigns\/images\/illegalsigns_title.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here at Spacing, we&#8217;ve been using the term &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?cat=11\">ad creep<\/a>&#8221; for years to help illustrate the impact of intrusive outdoor advertising in Toronto. These ads really are creeping on to our streets as a large percentage of them are completely illegal. The offenders often neglect to get the proper permits and completely ignore the bylaws the City has in place. The ad companies then often ignore the City&#8217;s &#8220;Notice to Comply&#8221;, which is a bureaucratic way of asking the perpetrators to take the sign down. And often, folks at the City&#8217;s Licensing and Standards department fail to follow through on complaints made by the public as cases get passed around from bylaw officer to bylaw officer, sometimes for years.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, the launch on <a href=\"http:\/\/illegalsigns.ca\"><strong>IllegalSigns.ca<\/strong><\/a> will help increase the visibility of an ad industry that thinks they rule our visual landscape. The blog will help identify and research potentially illegal billboards all over Toronto. Swing by the site and check out some of their fantastic work trying to hold the ad industry to account for their continued disregard for the law. With their help, maybe this city can truly become clean and beautiful.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: Just to be clear, Illegalsigns.ca is not a project of <em>Spacing<\/em>. We&#8217;ve had a few people ask us if we are running the site, but we&#8217;re not. Illegalsigns.ca is an independent organization and is run by a group of volunteers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here at Spacing, we&#8217;ve been using the term &#8220;ad creep&#8221; for years to help illustrate the impact of intrusive outdoor advertising in Toronto. These ads really are creeping on to our streets as a large percentage of them are completely illegal. The offenders often neglect to get the proper permits and completely ignore the bylaws<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/02\/12\/illegal-signs-blog-launches\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Illegal Signs blog launches!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21759,15,2],"tags":[11,4570,4569,4568,19],"class_list":["post-1522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","category-media","category-politics","tag-ad-creep","tag-bylaw-officer","tag-illegalsigns-ca","tag-intrusive-outdoor-advertising","tag-toronto"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Illegal Signs blog launches! - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/02\/12\/illegal-signs-blog-launches\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Illegal Signs blog launches! - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here at Spacing, we&#8217;ve been using the term &#8220;ad creep&#8221; for years to help illustrate the impact of intrusive outdoor advertising in Toronto. 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